[Day in the Life post]

[fromthelostdays]

*Heather's stretched out under a tree, working on sketches of Queen Elizabeth for the portraits she's going to draw for Turnbull. She's surrounded by paper and colored pencils, with her laptop opened up for photo references and her gun at her side in case a monster starts looking too interested in her*

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[fromthelostdays]

Oh, one of the new counselors hired me to draw some pictures of a queen from our world for him. I figured I'd better get started on them.

[fromthelostdays]

I've never drawn anything for money before, but, since he asked, I figured it'd be good to have some cash around instead of just credit cards again.

[knowing_smile]

*perched in the higher branches of said tree*

How's the work going?

[fromthelostdays]

*tilts her head back so she can look at him* Pretty well. I think I'm about ready to get started on the first real portrait.

[knowing_smile]

*drops down to the ground next to her* So who's the subject? Looks like royalty.

[fromthelostdays]

Yup. Queen of England. One of the new counselors hired me to do some drawings of her for him to hang up.

[latrine_orderly]

♪ Here comes Excel cottontail~
Hoppin' down the ACROSS trail~
Hippity, hoppity, conquest's on its waaaaaaay~

*stops to peek*

[fromthelostdays]

*tilts the page she's working on some to make it easier for Excel to look* Now, for some reason I feel compelled to make sure you know this is just a job and not a reflection on where I stand politically.

[latrine_orderly]

*nods approvingly* Ah, that's fine! Carry on! I also would have accepted, "The only Queen I hail to was fronted by Freddy Mercury."

[fromthelostdays]

Will do. That depends on the song.

[fake_alchemist]

Didn't realize you were an artist, Heather.

[fromthelostdays]

Only for fun, until now. But I've been drawing ever since I was old enough to hold onto crayons as Alessa.

[fake_alchemist]

Did you ever do the picture where the sky has a cloud and a smiling sun with little lines coming out of it?

[fromthelostdays]

And a tree on the ground that's just a thick brown line sticking out of a green blob that's almost the same shape as the cloud.

[and_thats_it]

You draw well.

[fromthelostdays]

Thanks. I've been doing it since I was little.

[and_thats_it]

May I ask who the woman is?

[fromthelostdays]

The Queen of England, from my world. One of the new guys asked me to draw some pictures of her for him. I figured that if someone wanted to hire me to do a job here, I might as well take it.